[nycbug-talk] freebsd and gpt

Andy Kosela andy.kosela at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 02:06:30 EST 2008


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Alex Pilosov <alex at pilosoft.com> wrote:
> Freebsd sysinstall doesn't support GPT? Freebsd loader in 7.0 doesn't
> support booting off GPT partition?

>From 6.4-RELEASE announcement:
- boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB
devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices with GPT-enabled BIOSes.

So it seems FreeBSD *has* the ability to boot off GPT, although
personally I did not test it.

-- 
Andy Kosela
ora et labora



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